Hospitals

A tubal (aka ectopic) pregnancy can sometimes be a life threatening condition. If it is bleeding or ruptured, you may need surgery. You might need to spend the night in the hospital depending on the type of surgery (abdominal vs. laparoscopic) that is performed. Many tubal pregnancies are now diagnosed quite early, and treated with medication (methotrexate). In such a case you would not have to spend the night in a hospital.

There is about 137 abortions per hour. 234 abortions per 1,000 live births, 1.2 million per year, 3,288 per day, 9 abortions per hour and 1 abortion every 26 second.

May not make a person permanently sterile but heat is know to cause it. Puttying a laptop on a lap causes a significant increase in temperature around the scrotum. Even doctors advise men with fertility issues to wear shorts to reduce the hear around their scrotum. If you like working lying on your back and putting the LAPtop on your genital area directly then the exposure is even worse.

Hand gestures, music, drawings, color codes, cards, etc.

One needs to pass urine after surgery to ensure the kidneys are functioning properly. Failure to pass urine indicates a renal problem.

The best abbreviation for hospital is Hosp.

English is the worldwide language of business. Knowing Business English will put workers, salespeople, managers, and other producers at a distinct advantage over those do not know it.

JCAHO stands for Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. It is an independent body that inspects and certifies the facilities and protocols of hospitals, treatment centers, rehabs and similar organizations. Its purpose is to identify facilities that meet certain minimum standards.

Although JCAHO certification is not mandatory, many secondary providers such as insurance companies will not deal as favorably with non-accredited institutions.

CPR can cause injury to a person's ribs, liver, lungs, and heart. However, these risks must be accepted if CPR is necessary to save the person's life.

There are many psychologists and psychiatrists who specialize in Anti-social Personality Disorder.

Check with your local doctors or hospitals to find someone who has this as their specialty and if they do not have anyone in-house that specializes in that disorder, they could likely refer you to someone who does.

There were NO hospitals in the 1700s and NO patient records.

Medical care was done in person's homes (at home) and on battlefields.

By the mid to late 1800s, "county homes" came into favor.

By the late 1800s, "sanitoriums" were in use for minor psychiatric cases and TB, mostly.

By the late 1800s, "county homes" served as warehousing for dementia (such as resulting from STDs), brain damage, elderly unable to care for themselves, stroke and TIA patients, and psychiatric patients, as well as persons born with brain damage or birth defects. At the same time, some "homes" also contained otherwise healthy orphans, or "incorrigible" teens whose parents couldn't control at home.

By the very late 1890s and turn of the century, doctors and prosperous, educated citizens began to establish hospitals. Very little was written down about patients. Doctors were mostly paid with goods-- a hen, a cow, a new saddle, etc. Doctors made medicines as they needed, for each patient -- if a medication was known. Most meds (like now) came from grinding of certain plants or roots. "Treatments" were often by guessing and some prior experience.

Record improvements occurred between 1900 and 1950s, but still had no specific types of information. Doctors made notes similar to those kept in a doctor's office.

After World War II and subsequent wars (Korean, Vietnam), doctors recognized the importance of more precise record keeping. But, it still varied from doctor to doctor, or hospital to hospital.

Insurance came along after more workers and industries became "unionized". Insurance carriers had a lot to do with demanding a more organized and systematized method of "recording" (making a record) of patient's problems and treatments.

At the same time, doctors had been developing precise ways from the earliest days of medicine to the 1960s (and beyond) to use the same criteria to describe a certain condition or illness. Assigning of a 'diagnosis' became much more important to justify to insurance companies the need to pay for services rendered. For example, in respiratory conditions, a common cold requires much less medical intervention than a person with acute pneumonia. So doctors began to be very precise in the "label" (diagnosis) they gave, and in documenting the treatment given.

Through the 1960s and 1970s, hospitals were still fairly closed systems-- more authoritative, secret,, veiled in mystery, kept behind closed curtains around the bedside. But, by the 1980s, many factors including insurance companies began to question how and why hospitals functioned or operated within the closed system. Insurance companies had quickly learned the true costs of everyday actions at hospitals, for example. No longer could a doctor charge a large fee to one patient, and a small fee to another patient-- when both had the same illness, disease, and care. Through the mid-1970s, patients only had one choice: go to the hospital. Even childbirth-- always done at home up through the 1920s-- had solely become "hospital cases".

By the 1980s, no longer did patients have just one choice. They now could choose to stay home, in part because of changes in how insurance companies paid (or didn't pay). The mandatory 7-day hospital stay after certain conditions, such as childbirth, became at the most 3 days. (Now, it may be 1 to 2 days.) Mandatory stays after surgeries reduced from 7 to 14 days in the hospital, to no longer than 5 days.

But, still, medicine and medical insurance continued to evolve, and the "patient chart" or medical record became the primary tool for both. Insurance companies questioned procedures, surgeries, treatments-- and their costs! Insurance companies regularly reviewed medical charts and if a doctor failed to chart properly, the doctor and hospital often did not get paid.

More and more, services were offered as out-patient. Hospital stays became short. Governing bodies over physicians and nurses developed clear rules, wording, and methods for how to chart a patient record. No more could a patient go to the hospital "for a rest", as was common in the late 1890s.

Now, hospital records are mandated ways of maintaining a written record of what transpired from the first minutes a patient enters the hospital or ER. A "patient chart" is not only a medical record, but in some ways is also a legal record. In the USA, patient records must be kept for 7 years -- which is 6 years beyond the legal statue of limitations to file a malpractice lawsuit. In the United Kingdom, the patient record is kept from birth and never purged, deleted, or destroyed. I do not know Canada, Mexico, or other overseas countries, and their laws for how long a medical record must be kept probably vary.

Care setting means the environment in which a patient is cared for on a daily basis. A care setting could be a hospital, a nursing home or a respite center.

How long is a piece of string? I have been a social work student now for just one year, and it still a very fluid concept. Maybe next year, after graduation, it'll finally appear...

Use alchahol to sterilize ,use tweezers one pair to hold open wound Nd second pair to remove shot, or use a VERY strong magnet, remember to either dull the pain or give patient something to bite down on, stitch close wound, sterilize again apply aloe vera then bandage with gauze BUT U SHOULD REALLY GO TO HOSP

As of 2013, the average yearly salary for a cafeteria worker in a hospital is $21,000. This will obviously fluctuate depending upon the location, company and the employees experience in the field.

Perineal excoriation is the irritation of the perineal area. This is a common problem for those that have had anal surgery and can be cleared up by keeping the area clean and dry.

If the author meant BP as British Pharmacopea it is worthy for pharmacology, pharmacies and for information about drugs. But if the author wanted to say: British Paetroleum, I have no answer!

BP is also British Public, British Pubs, British Prostitutes, but they have no role and place in the Medical Terminology section!

The EOB (Explanation of Benefits) is what explains Medicare's payments and denials. Sometimes it is referred to as an EOP (Explanation of Payment). This document will show all items filed on a particular claim for a particular provider. It will show which items were covered or noncovered and why, which items were denied and why, and which items were paid. It will also show the patient's responsibility as far as deductible and coinsurance goes. If the patient has a Medicare supplement or just a secondary plan and Medicare is aware who you have chosen, they will "crossover" the claim to the secondary. This means they will automatically send a notification to the secondary payor to let them know how much Medicare allowed (the total amount the provider should receive from Medicare, other insurance companies and the patient), and how much is being left to the patient/secondary.

St. Jude Children's Hospital is located in Memphis, Tennessee. The mailing address for the hospital is 262 Danny Thomas Place Memphis, TN 38105.

A patient in Buck's Traction should not turn from side to side. This can interfere with the immobilization of the leg or foot.

If you are looking for the best diabetes care, call the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at NYP Hospital. Their # is 212-851-5494. Any of the endocrinologists there are excellent. They believe in a team approach and their staff includes nutritionists, nurses, opthomologists to name just a few.

You have to buy it - or work at a hospital that has it. It's very expensive, but you can buy back issues for about $50 each. See www.aha.org

In the UK after finishing school at 18 or 19, you need to go to a University with a Medical School (not all universities have them) and teaching hospital. You will then spend 5 years learning to be a doctor, (after this you are qualified as a General Practitioner GP).

Following this you may spend further time (several years) working in teaching hospitals if you want to become a hospital doctor/registrar/consultant.

To be a good doctor you need to keep your skills up to date throughout your working life so if you are a doctor you actually keep learning all your life.

You just call them a patient or you could just call them a person.